The PC is changing. Once simply a computer with spreadsheets for the family budget and games for the kids, home PCs are rapidly evolving into home entertainment systems, equipped with digital television tuners, high-definition displays, and other features drawn from consumer electronics.

NEC has developed a wireless system that can transmit uncompressed high-definition (HD) video signals and could eliminate the need for cables when connecting HD-capable products, the company said on Tuesday. Systems based on the technology could be available in 2007.

NEC has developed a cellular telephone with a built-in camera that is about the same size as a credit card and less than a centimetre thick and plans to put it on sale before the end of this month in China, the Tokyo company said Tuesday.

NEC has developed a camera-phone that's the size of a credit card, and plans to unveil it next week.
Few details of the telephone are available at present and NEC is expected to announce its development and the name of a launch customer at a Tokyo